Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.